ʻAzrîyʼêl — H5837

Definition

masculine proper noun

Azriel, the name of three Israelites

1. Azriel = "my help is God"
2. a head of a house of the half-tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan
3. a Naphtalite, ancestor of Jerimoth, the head of the tribe at the time of the census of David
4. father of Seraiah, an officer of king Jehoiakim of Judah

Usually translated as

Azriel

Origin

from H5828 and H410; help of God

• Derived from ʻêzer (H5828)
• Derived from ʼêl (H410)

Occurrences

ʻAzrîyʼêl occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (2), Jeremiah (1)

• 1 Chronicles 5:24 — And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel (וְ֠עַזְרִיאֵל), and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
• 1 Chronicles 27:19 — Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel (עַזְרִיאֵֽל):
• Jeremiah 36:26 — But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel (עַזְרִיאֵ֗ל), and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.